Arctic Oscillation response to the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption: Effects of volcanic aerosols and ozone depletion

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue 24, 2002, Pages ACL-28-1-ACL-28-16

  Stenchikov, Georgiy ^a   Robock, Alan ^a   Ramaswamy, V ^b   Schwarzkopf, M Daniel ^b   Hamilton, Kevin ^c   Ramachandran, S ^d  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

1620 Global Change: Climate dynamics (3309); 3309 meteorology and; 3319 meteorology and; 3362 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Stratosphere troposphere interactions; Atmospheric; Climatology (1620); Dynamics; General circulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 36448993338     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JD002090     Document Type: Article

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